Building animations 196

This is a round about way to do what you want, but I've done it for several applications and it works fine. You can export as an animated gif, and yes, you can control framerate. Unfortunately, .gifs are limited to 256 (i.e. 8-bit) colors.

1) Download ImageJ (scientific imaging program). Free from the NIH:

2) Download the "GIF stack writer" and install into the imageJ plugins folder.

Sequence". Note that imageJ will load files in alphabetical order, by file name, so they need to be named something like "ani001", "ani002", etc.

This should load up your animation as a stack. You can browse it by draggin the curor on the bottom of the image.

4) Save as an animated gif. To do this, start the gif writer plugin you installed (see plugin documentation for info).

5) You'll get a little box asking for a file name and a check box for options, check this box. This will open an options window.

6) Set your options as you see fit. Adjusting the delay will set your frame rate. You can also set the animation to loop or play a set number of times. Save and your done.

For your delays (~2 frames per second) you'll want a delay of about 500ms.

That's it - I hope this helps.

Bryan